Introducing the Solana BP Badge, a devkit for learning about and exploring Solana by building apps, playing with hardware, and winning prizes. Watch @spacemandev explain it here, and check out more at

What's cooler than wearing a plastic badge that has your name printed on it? Wearing a hardware badge that can display your name and run your applications! Wanna know how to get one? 👇

Consolidation is happening in blockchain. Apps are moving to infrastructure that has: → Handled the most traffic → Consistently increased capacity → Proven institutional-grade security Only one network clears that bar for critical financial infrastructure. Solana.

STOCKLANA WINNERS! The prompt was simple: build something cool with stocks on Solana. 604 submissions later, and we have the winners: 1st: Roster Finance - @roster_fi 2nd: Draw - @NnadiJoshuaC 3rd: Xorr - @XorrFinance, @nickthelegend88 3rd: Cresco - @Cresco0m, @roy1919875, @0x_beni_ 3rd: Neo - @blueshift

Now that Alpenglow is launched, I was wondering how it worked in a Quantum computing future. Turns out it's actually quite simple and has no loss in speed. Check out the whiteboarding session today 👇

The AI-driven surge in vulnerability discovery and exploitation has begun. Three indicators from the past few weeks: 1. chatter that incident response firms are fully booked and overwhelmed with business (meaning breaches are happening even if we don’t see headlines) 2. a major certificate authority compromise (eMudhra) 3. the massive PHP vulnerabilities discussed today (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) AI is either directly discovering the vulnerabilities or is a means to rapidly exploit the issue at scale and low cost. The combination of low cost and scale means industries that skated under the radar because of attacker interest / ROI are now squarely in the attack crosshairs. This applies to all companies, big and small. You are not safe because “hackers won’t come after industry XYZ”. They will. The defensive needs are clear. We need to migrate from human-driven cyber defense to defense at the speed of computers. This is the position I laid out in December when I spoke to the House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee in DC about the threat of AI-powered cybersecurity attacks. What should organizations do today? This is not an exercise in being clever. Rather the need is to be comprehensive. 1. Understand your exposure - Establish an automated inventory of your packages, libraries, operating systems, full tech stack, etc. 2. Understand when you need to respond - Build automated monitoring systems that monitor public CVEs and cybersecurity chatter and cross-reference this with your inventory. Response time is moving from days to hours to minutes. You need automation and alerting. 3. Mobilize and plan for response - The issue will inevitably hit at 2am. How will you mobilize the right team members? Can you bring the system offline in moments (operationally, and do you have internal authorization)? What team members are needed? Do you have reliable paging and response? Practice now. 4. Reduce Attack Surface & fix issues you can now - AI chaining is increasingly tying together otherwise low-risk issues into critical outcomes. This means you either need to comprehensively analyze all known vulns to better understand if a low is actually a high risk issue. Or, lacking this capability, be more aggressive to fix known issues. One simple way to fix issues - remove the access and exposure. A device that can’t be reached is much harder to exploit! This is not business as usual. Your cybersecurity posture and strategy over the next 18 months are an opportunity to survive when your competition fails (and they may no longer be a competitor at that point). If you’ve been saying “We take cybersecurity seriously...” This is your chance to put your money where your mouth is.

Alpenglow is live! It's been a crazy grind over the past 20 months bringing this to mainnet. Huge shoutout to the Anza engineering team, @TheWattenhofer and the research team, the Anza security team, all our auditors and bug bounty participants. And of course the validator operators who spent countless hours with their own hardware to help us test and bring this to mainnet. We couldn't have done this without you all! Lets AlpenGO.

Solana's tech was already #1# for scaled crypto use cases. With Alpenglow, Solana is now light years ahead. The audacity to replace the core mechanisms of the network while handling thousands of live TPS is uniquely Solana. Congrats to the @anza_xyz team on shipping.

Unlike many networks, Solana users don't need to go into "bunker mode" ahead of an accelerated quantum timeline or classical attack provided by AI. Solana uses Ed25519, where each signing key is derived by hashing a secret seed. Breaking the curve, whether by a quantum computer or a classical attack, would expose the derived key, but not the seed, and seeds are never exposed onchain. With a one-time network upgrade, rightful owners could prove knowledge of their seed using a hash-based proof and move their accounts to a safe signature scheme. A working proof of concept already exists: Solana remains secure today and has a defined path forward.